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Biomedical engineer; Institute Professor at MIT
United States · b. 1948
Robert Langer is an American chemical engineer and biotechnologist whose laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pioneered controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering. He is one of MIT's Institute Professors and among the most cited engineers in history.
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In fact, what I usually say to people, “Probably some of the most successful scientists are the ones that know how to deal with failure well.” Because it’s easy to feel good when you succeed. That’s an easy thing. But you’re probably going to fail in science a lot more than you succeed, so you really have to learn how to deal with it and not let it beat you.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 25 October 2012 source ↗
I didn’t realize that scientists were like that, and that people were like that. I would have thought — and I like to hope — that I encourage people rather than discourage people. I think you can say no and still say, “Boy, that might be a tough problem, but if you really work at it maybe you’ll solve it,” rather than, “No, it will never happen.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 25 October 2012 source ↗
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